The Siamerican

Today marks exactly one year since my accident slash awakening. Seeming like an entire epoch meshed into a mere millisecond, I’ve moved on with life. My left hand’s functionality is coming along well enough to type on this keyboard utilizing all fingers, as well as compensate to form and play most basic chords on the guitar and ukulele; Still my left limb’s deltoids, biceps and triceps come short of reinervating sufficient reactivation as I exceed four months since primary nerve repair surgery. I am expecting-hoping for new function, e.g. bicep flex, in the coming four to six months, before I would need to consider further muscle transfer surgeries. Tis is-will continue to be a slog.

As of the last seven and a half months, Monday through Friday I am teaching full time math, soundlab and English activity classes at a primary school in South Central Bangkok. It has turned out to be a comfortable gig that I am able to juggle the full time teacher role with occasional student obligations at Uni (e.g. Exams, presentations, required lectures), and I can only hope for the best that the school will continue one more year contract come April when my current contract ends.

For the first term of 2009 academic school year (August – December 2009), my seventh of a total nine planned semesters, I managed a 3.50 GPA in my four classes via two As, one B+, and my first ever C+ in Uni, bringing my overall GPA down to 3.8. Before I am finished with this Communications Arts undergraduate degree by the end of this year, I anticipate the Grade point to drop slightly even more due to my full time job obligation priority. So be it. For this eighth semester which just started a few weeks back, I have registered for five classes scheduled Monday,Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. It will certainly prove to be a challenge to keep my professors appeased but I am confident that I can pass all with at least Cs. This shall leave my ninth and final semester starting August with four classes.

And then what? I don’t hope to settle in Bangkok much longer than necessary. I may likely return to Phuket and teach/write there for a spell so I can be near with my son. A temporary return to the states is anticipated after next year, with the aim of bringing my son to his second country for the first time.
2003 was the last time I saw much of my family and friends there. Once this academic burden is behind, I hope to be able to return to the states more regularly, ideally annually—more for my son’s sake. Well lets just see where this post sits one year from now to contrast.

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